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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 9, 1913. Serial No. 740,913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN P. CRONIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Creels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention contemplates certain improvements in creels for warping machines and especially creels of the kind shown and described in my U. S. Letters Patent Nos.

626974 and 613760.

, on the rear pins.

One of the principalobjects of the invention is to construct and arrange the supports for the outer or forward bobbin pins so that all the threadsextending from the bobbins on each of said supports. may pass through the reed as a group apart or entirely distinct from the threads on either of the two neighboring rows of inner or rear bobbin pins and at the same time avoid interference of said supports with the threads extending from the bobbins on said rearv pins.

Another object is to improve the manner of mounting said supports, when arranged to swing aside to allow access to the bobbins oblique bars I) for the outwardly projecting pins 0 for the rear or inner set of bobbins a3; the'guide bars 6 and f for the threads extending from the inner and outer banks of bobbins or spools; and the reed g are or may be all constructed and arranged substantially as in my patents aforementioned.

To the creel frame are secured the brackets h and to these are pivoted the oblique outwardly projecting yokes or supports i arranged parallel with bars 6 and each hav 'ing a row of outwardly projecting pins j for Figure lis aplan of a set relation to the rear pins.

an'outer or front row of bobbins 7c. The pivoting of theyokes of course has for its ob ect to allow them to be swung aside for access to the rear bobbins.

In the creel of my Patent No. 626974=the front bobbin pins were in alinement with the rear bobbin pins. This necessitated the threads from each front and corresponding rear row of bobbins being extended, alternated with each other and hence in a more or less confusing arrangement, to and throughthe reed. In thecreel of my Patent No. 613760, the front bobbin pinswere laterally offset with respect tothe complementary rearbobbin pins, so that the set of threads from any front bobbin row passed through the. reed laterally offset and therefore distinct from' the sets of threads from the two neighboring rear bobs bin rows; but the supports carrying the front bobbin pins interfered with the threads from the rear bobbins, especially (on account of the lateral obliquity of said bobbins) those from the lower ones.

In the present construction the "threads of each row of bobbins in'one bank may be passed to and't-hrough the reed as a group wholly distinct from those from either of the two adjoiningrowsin the other bank,

and yet interference of the supports or yokes with the groups of threads extending from the rear bobbins is prevented, thus: The brackets h are arranged to alternate with the bars I) and the arms Z of the yokes project, as seen in plan, from the frame obliquely toward the complementary rear row of pins, having their free or pin-carrying ends then bent off relatively awayfrom said complementary rear row of pins so as to bring the front pins in the necessary off- Thus in the normal position the threads coming from the bobbins on any one yoke stand in the reed as a group directly next to (or distinct from) and between two groups coming from two rear rows of bobbins, the groups (spaced from each otheras seen in Figs. 2 and 4) from all the rear rows of bobbins bein extended over the inner bar 6 and those likewise spaced) from all the outer rows over the outer barf; nevertheless, due to the oblique form of the yoke arms Z, all the Patented Sept. 9, 1913.

threads from the rear rows of bobbins reach the bar e without contact with the upper arms Z, although the lower bobbins in each rear row are considerably ofiset laterally.

This will be seen on reference to Figs. 1 and 0?, for the yoke and each fixed in its stud at one end'and bearing against the yoke at the other, and in order that the several yokes may all be adjustable to the same angularity the stop'which limits its movement under the influence of the springs is constituted by a cam shaped end or face 0 in the yoke adapted to bear against bracket h '(Fig. 1), and the studs 72. are inwardly and outwardly adjustable in slots pin the brackets h.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the arms 9 of the yoke are pivoted on studs 7" and have cam-shaped ends orfaces 8 impinged by spring members 25 secured to the brackets a carrying the studs. Each spring may carry a shoe 1; for direct contact with the cam-face s, the shoe and said face being preferably serrated so as to have an appreciable frictional grip on each other. Thus, to whatever position the yoke is swimg it will be held by the gripping coaction of the spring and cam face. The toe w on the extremity of the cam-face affords an abutment to limit themovement of the yoke. Both types of joint between each yoke and frame possess in common, itv

will be observed, the cam-face on the yoke and the movability one toward the other as between the yoke and the part with which its cam-face contacts. I

Copies of this patent may be obtained for Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a creel, the combination of the frame, parallel oblique rows of bobbin pins secured thereto and projecting therefrom, oblique supports attached to the frame, and rows of other bobbin pins projecting outwardly from the respective supports, said supports having their free end portions bent 01f laterally and said other pins being carried by said free end portions of said supports and arranged in plan in alternation with the first-named pins, substantially as described.

2. In a creel, the combination of the frame, parallel oblique rows of bobbin-pins secured thereto and projecting therefrom, oblique supports attached to the frame in alternation with the rows of pins, androws of other bobbinpins projecting outwardly from the respective supports, said supports projecting in plan from the frame obliquely toward one side and having their pin-carrying portions bent ofi laterally toward the other side, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the frame having an abutment member and a bobbin-pinsup porting member having a swinging movement in the frame and having a curved cam face impinging against said abutment member, one of said members being movable toward and from and spring-pressed toward the other member and said cam face and the surface of the abutment member engaged thereby having serrations.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN P. CRONIN. Witnesses:

WM. D. BELL, JOHN W. SrEwARo.

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